Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarters: Israel Founded: 2016 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: Metomotion is a leading player engaged in the development of robotics and automation technologies for indoor and greenhouse farming. The company aims to serve the increasing production of vegetables in greenhouse farming. The company’s product line includes a robotic worker that is designed to perform labor-intensive tasks in greenhouses. The company aims to reduce nearly 50% cost of harvest-related labor operations. The company has raised a seed funding of nearly USD 1.5 million to date.

Company Headquarters: The Netherlands Founded: 1947 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Javo is one of the major developers and manufacturers of potting machines, soil handling systems, and robot systems. Its major product line includes potting machines, tray automation, substrate handling, transport systems, and robot systems. The company has two major manufacturing facilities located across the Netherlands and the US and has offices located across 60 countries. The major customers of the company include farmers engaged in horticulture, greenhouse farming, and indoor farming. The company also provides consultancy services to government institutions and advisory bodies.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2017 Workforce: ~20 Company Working: Root AI, Inc (Root AI) is a start-up engaged in the development of intelligent robots used in indoor as well as outdoor farming for picking, gripping, and plucking of fruits. The company’s line of technologies includes real-time detection, gentle touch, and intelligent motion. Its products use 3D sensors and detection systems to pick and pluck ripe fruits and tomatoes. The company aims to produce crops and fruits with nearly 90% less water consumption over a small land area. The company has major operations in the US and plans to expand its operations in other North American countries.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2007 Workforce: ~40 Company Working: Harvest Automation Inc (Harvest Automation) is one of the leading players offering greenhouse farming material handling robots. The company offers solutions to address the challenges of practical robotic operations. Its major customers include nurseries and greenhouse farmers. Harvest Automation has developed first flexible, scalable robots for agriculture and distribution and fulfillment. The company is highly active in the US and has deployed its robots across 30 farms. The company has also received an investment funding of nearly USD 30 million.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2011 Workforce: ~25 Company Working: FodderWorks is a leading manufacturer of automatic robotic fodder system. The company is engaged in the production of sprouts and barley seeds for cattle and horses. Its product portfolio includes a robotic fodder system, and components and accessories for the robotic fodder system. The company generated revenue of nearly USD 3.8 million in 2018 and sells its produce across the US and parts of Canada.

Company Headquarters: Netherlands Founded: 1967 Workforce: ~300 Company Working: Visser Horti Systems B.V. (Visser) is one of the major designers and manufacturers of horticultural machinery and robotic systems. The company’s major customers include small nurseries and horticultural greenhouses. Visser supplies automation systems and robots to meet the growing demand in several markets. The company’s product portfolio includes machinery for plugs, cutting, tissue culture automation, field production, hot house production, pot plants, herbs, nursery stock, soil handling, and soil blocking. The company has sales offices located across 15 countries.

Company Headquarters: Denmark Founded: 2015 Workforce: ~100 Company Working: OnRobot A/S (OnRobot) is one of the prime manufacturers of industrial robots in Denmark and other European countries. The company specializes in designing and manufacturing of end-of-arm tooling grippers for the collaborative robotic system. The company offers robotic arms that find applications in quality testing & inspection, surface finishing, assembly, packaging & palletizing, and pick & place. The company was established as a result of the merger between Perception Robotics, a US-based company; OptoForce, a Hungary-based company; and OnRobot in 2018. The company has a wide distribution channel spread across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The company generated an estimated revenue of USD 13 million in 2018.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2015 Workforce: ~30 Company Working: Iron Ox is one of the leading indoor farm stations that uses robotics-first human-led approach to grow crops, vegetables, and crops. The indoor farming robots require minimal energy and use modern methods of farming such as hydroponic technology. This approach has reduced nearly 90% consumption of water and increased the yield by nearly 30 times than by the traditional farming methods. The robots offered use Lidars and 3D cameras to pick, grab, and plant crops on farm modules. It is engaged in the production of romaine lettuce, bok choy, and cilantro, among others. The company serves the local farming communities across the US and has managed to raise seed funding of nearly USD 6 million. The annual revenue of the company in 2018 was around USD 1.5 million.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 2014 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: TickTalk engages in providing watch phones for kids between 4–12 years of age. The watches are designed to enable parents to stay connected to their kids through text messages, phone calls, and video calls. These watches also feature to-do alerts to help kids manage their daily schedule. The company sells its product through online medium across the US.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 2008 Workforce: ~530 Company Working: SIBYL WORLD SDN BHD (SIBYL) is a manufacturer of electronic products including earphones, mouse, keyboards, and portable chargers, among others. The company has collaborated with Tencent to distribute the QQ watch in Malaysia. Along with this collaboration, SIBYL has become the official distributor of the QQ watch in Malaysia. The QQ watch is a smartwatch enabled with user-friendly features designed especially for kids. It enables parents to track the real-time whereabouts of their children. Geographically, the company operates in Asia and the Middle East regions.

Company Headquarters: Spain Founded: 1996 Workforce: ~100 Company Working: KD Group engages in the provision of technology-based toys, tablets, and products for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children. It operates through the following segments—interactive/tablets, toys, content and TV productions, and lighting. Its product portfolio includes a mix of Kurio products, lighting products, preschool electronic learning toys, family games, apps and TV series, and design, development, and manufacturing services. Regionally, the company operates in Europe, North America, and the rest of the world.

Company Headquarters: India Founded: 2011 Workforce: ~360 Company Working: Franciscan Solutions Private Limited is a web technologies and software development company that specializes in school management software focused towards automation of the operational and academic process, communication, and security. Its Franciscan TeamCare Pvt. Ltd division focuses on security of kids in and outside the school. Moreover, the company has also developed a school-parent oriented mobile application where kids will be automatically connected to the school and parents with a small GPS tracking wristwatch (MySecureKid).

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 2013 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Omate Inc. engages in the designing and sale of wearables and IoT solutions for kids and the elderly. It also provides wearable-as-a-service solutions to customers seeking self-protection. Its product portfolio comprises five product lines namely—the Omate X, Racer, Lutetia, Roma, and TrueSmart. These products are primarily designed for kids, seniors, and enterprises. The company markets its products primarily through an online medium.

Company Headquarters: China Founded: 2008 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: Shenzhen Continental Wireless Co., Ltd engages in the development of embedded software, hardware, industrial design, cloud services, and mobile application fields. Its product portfolio comprises traditional activity trackers, baby cloud entertainment terminal, children operating system, smart teenager watch, parent-child robot, and baby health-care products, among others. The company sells its products through Abardeen brand across China. It has also partnered with Alibaba, GearBest, and Amazon for online distribution of its products across the globe.

Company Headquarters: California Founded: 2016 Workforce: ~10 Company Working: JOY FamilyTech, Inc. (JOY) is a platform provider for AI-powered routines and adaptive coaching. The company has designed a series of wearable devices to help parents develop self-discipline in their kids and provide them with organizational skills. One of its offerings includes Octopus watch that is a combination of a watch, a scheduler, and an assistant that empowers kids by inculcating good habits in them as well as learn the concept of time.

Company Headquarters: Hong Kong Founded: 2015 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: Doki Technologies is an IoT-based company that develops smart devices to ensure the safety and security of kids. Its product portfolio includes the dokiPal—an interactive smartwatch and the dokiBop—wired headphones for kids. The dokiPal is a smartwatch for children of 6–12 years of age. The dokiPal watch provides 3G connectivity for video calling, voice calling, and messaging along with features such as GPS tracking and fitness tracking. The dokiBop is a children-friendly earphone that is designed especially for kids and features volume-limiting capabilities to ensure safety and comfort of their ears.

Company Headquarter: UK Founded: 1997 Workforce: ~34,000 Company Working: Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (Brookfield Infrastructure), a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management Inc, is a provider of essential products and services for the global economy. The company operates through four segments, which are utilities, transport, energy, communications infrastructure businesses, and others. Its utilities segment covers its regulated or contractual businesses that earn a return on their rate base. Brookfield Infrastructure’s transport segment is involved in the movement of freight, bulk commodities, and passengers. The company’s energy segment is engaged in offering systems for transportation, storage, and handling energy. Its communications infrastructure segment provides services and critical infrastructure to the media broadcasting and telecom industries. The company operates in Australia, the UK, and Bermuda.

Company Headquarter: US Founded: 1893 Workforce: ~30,918 Company Working: WorleyParsons Limited is a leading global provider of professional project and asset services for the energy, chemicals, and resources markets. The company serves the new energy, power, upstream& downstream, refining & chemical, mining, minerals, & metals, and infrastructure industries. It has expertise in digital solutions, consulting, engineering& design, supply chain management, construction & fabrication, construction management, project management services, maintenance, modifications, and operations. It has a presence across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Company Headquarter: US Founded: 2001 Workforce: ~1,800 Company Working: Magellan Midstream Partners LP is engaged in the transportation, storage, and distribution of petroleum products. It operates through three segments, which are refined products, crude oil, and marine storage. The refined products segment offers common carrier refined product pipeline systems, independent terminals, and ammonia pipeline systems. Its crude oil segment comprises crude oil pipelines, splitter, and storage facilities, which are used for contract storage. The marine storage segment covers marine terminals located along coastal waterways.

Company Headquarter: UK Founded: 1997 Workforce: ~18,300 Company Working: Centrica plc is an international energy and services company. The company offers business services & solutions for energy marketing & trading and central power generation. Centrica Storage Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Centrica plc, which used to store gas in the Rough gas field, located 29km (18 miles) from the coast and 2.7km below the seabed. The company caters to utilities, gas traders, and gas producers. 47/3 Bravo and 47/8 Alpha are its two offshore platforms located on the Rough gas field.

Company Headquarter: US Founded: 1886 Workforce: ~1,200 Company Working: Buckeye Partners, L.P. is one of the largest liquid petroleum products pipeline operators in the US. It has a diversified global network of integrated assets, providing midstream logistic solutions, primarily for transporting, storing, processing, and marketing liquid petroleum products. The company’s global terminal network comprises more than 115 liquid petroleum products terminals with an aggregate tank capacity of over 118 million barrels. It offers its pipelines, inland terminals, and marine terminals for clients in the East Coast, Midwest, and Gulf Coast regions of the US.

Company Headquarter: UK Founded: 1938 Workforce: ~500 Company Working: Keysight Technologies UK is a leading technology company. It offers electronic measurement services using wireless, modular, and software solutions. The company’s products and solutions have applications in the aerospace & defense, automotive and energy, communications, government, and semiconductor industries, among others. Its product portfolio includes oscilloscopes and analyzers, generators, sources and power, wireless solutions, network security and visibility, modular instruments, meters, and software & services. Its solutions portfolio includes 5G, cloud, connected car, data center infrastructure, design and automation, and emerging technologies (6G, energy ecosystem, and high-speed digital systems).

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1961 Workforce: ~1,200 Company Working: TSI Incorporated is an industry leader in the design and production of precision instruments. It has applications in aerosol science, health and safety, indoor air quality, airflow, fluid dynamics, and biohazard detection. It caters to various industries such as occupational health & safety, research, HVAC, environmental, healthcare, and manufacturing. The company also provides support services for repairs & calibrations, TSI software and firmware wizard, product registration, service and calibration agreements, payments, returns & repairs, data privacy & protection policy, and software licensing. The company has a presence across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Company Headquarters: Florida Founded: 2006 Workforce: ~50 Company Working: APC Packaging is a leading provider for high-quality packaging solutions for global beauty and skincare brands. The company offers innovative products namely custom packaging, custom molds, beauty packaging, airless packaging, cosmetics packaging, skincare packaging, custom bottles, custom jars, acrylic jars and airless bottles. The company also prepares private-molded packaging with unique design to protect intellectual property. The company operates through its manufacturing facility in China and operates warehouse, sales, engineering, and logistics facilities in the US.

Company Headquarters: Italy Founded: 1975 Workforce: ~1000 Company Working: Lumson SPA is a manufacturer and distributer of packaging products. The company primarily provides packaging services for cosmetic, make-up, and pharmaceutical applications. Its product portfolio includes tubes and bottles, dispensing systems, airless tubes, lip-glosses, lipsticks, eyeliners, and glass jars. The company offers a wide range of dispensing systems such as smart pumps, cosmetic droppers, horizon pumps, and twist and click. It also provides covers, overcaps, screw caps, dispensing caps, and other accessories.

Company Headquarters: Shanghai Founded: 2000 Workforce: ~1800 Company Working: HCP Packaging Co. Ltd. (HCP Packaging), a subsidiary of Baring Private Equity Asia, is a provider of packaging materials and solutions. It designs, develops and manufactures packaging containers for cosmetic, skincare, and perfume industries. The company offers standard and customized compacts, lipsticks and lip gloss containers, mascara, eye shadow containers, brushes, cosmetic applicators, sponges, metal pans, pots, kits, tubes and bottles, skincare jars, ancillary and promotional packs, caps, and fragrance closure products. HCP Packaging offers airless pumps used for eye serum products. It operates manufacturing facilities and sales offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. The company is also a provider of primary cosmetic and skincare packaging solutions.

Company Headquarters: Italy Founded: 2003 Workforce: ~5,000 Company Working: EPTA manufactures and sells complete systems for commercial refrigeration. It offers refrigerated display cases and serve-over cabinets for fresh, unpackaged and packaged products. It also offers positive temperature vertical and semi vertical counters for fresh packaged foods. It has strong presence in the food and beverage market. It offers products through Group’s brands, which include Costan, Bonnet Névé, George Barker, Eurocryor, Misa, IARP, Kysor Warren, and Knudsen Køling. The company has annual production capacity of around 200,000 units. It had a revenue of USD 1,003.16 million in 2017. The company has nearly 11 production facilities and sales offices in more than 40 countries, around the globe. It primarily manages its business operations in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. In April 2019, the company acquired Kysor Warren, a major manufacturer of commercial refrigeration equipment from Lennox International.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1882 Workforce: ~600* Total Revenue (2018): ~USD 374.65 Million* Company Working: Kysor Warren is major manufacturer of display cases and refrigeration systems across North America. The company offers products under the category of refrigerated merchandisers and refrigeration systems. In the refrigerated merchandisers category, the company primarily offers display cases for bakery, ice cream, beverage, and other related applications. The company offer products for supermarkets, convenience stores, foodservice, and mass merchant. It also involves in the distribution of spare parts and product services. Kysor Warren operates as a subsidiary of EPTA Refrigeration, since April 2019, before it was a subsidiary of Lennox International. The company operates in the North American market through the network of sales representatives. It has two manufacturing facilities across Columbus and Georgia in the US and one in Mexico City, Mexico

Company Headquarters: Austria Founded: 1983 Workforce: ~1,000* Total Revenue (2018): ~USD 428.69 Million* Company Working: AHT Cooling Systems GmbH engages in the design, development, and manufacturing of freezers and refrigerator systems. The company offers freezers/chest freezers, overhead cabinets, refrigerated multideck cabinets, ice cream chests, and promotion coolers for food retail companies. It also offers certified spare parts and product supports for the end users. Since November 2018, AHT Cooling Systems operates as a subsidiary of Daikin Industries, Ltd. The company has manufacturing facilities across Rottenmann in Austria, Changshu in China, Navegantes in Brazil, and Ladson in the US. It has a production capability of more than 250,000 appliances, annually. It has research and development center in Germany. It operates and manages its sales and services from Austria, the US, China, Brazil, Spain, France, Germany, the UK, Hongkong, Mexico, Russia, Denmark, Italy, and Turkey.

Company Headquarters: US Founded: 1887 Workforce: ~3,500* Total Revenue (2018): ~USD 197.53 Million* Company Working: Hillphoenix operates as a subsidiary of Dover Corporation. The company is engaged in the manufacturing of refrigeration systems for industrial and commercial applications. The company’s product portfolio includes display cases, small format food retail, refrigeration systems, power systems, the AMS group (aftermarket solutions), and industrial refrigeration. It offers products through industrial refrigeration solutions, commercial refrigeration solutions, sustainable refrigeration systems, industrial power solutions, and retail display cases and merchandisers. The company primarily offer products for various end users such as supermarket, food convenience store, drug store, and warehouse food retail. The company primarily operates in the US and Canada and has manufacturing facilities in Georgia and Iowa. The company offers aftermarket solutions and services across Phoenix inArizona, Chino in California, and Ontario in Canada. It has a network of nearly 70 dealers for the distribution of products across the US and Canada.